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The theme of the essays in this volume is the identification of the
resources which between c.1320 and 1642 the English church saw fit
to provide for the performance of the music of its liturgy.
Individual essays describe the music and the choirs of Canterbury
and Lincoln Cathedrals, Winchester Cathedral Priory and the private
chapel of Cardinal Wolsey, while the personnel of the chapels of
Edward III, the Black Prince and John of Gaunt emerge from study of
the texts of compositions of the 14th century. From the alignment
of contemporary musical and archival sources there arises a web of
conclusions relating to the size of ensemble, vocal scoring and
sounding pitch envisaged by its composers for English church
polyphony of the period c.1320-1559. These essays thus encompass
the two most profound of the revolutions to which the music of the
English church was subject at this period: the inauguration and
widespread adoption of choral polyphony in the years c.1455-85 and
the liturgical and doctrinal Reformation of 1547 to 1563.
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be
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to learn more. In the 1990s, Los Angeles was home to numerous
radical social and environmental eruptions. In the face of several
major earthquakes and floods, riots and economic insecurity, police
brutality and mass incarceration, some young black Angelenos turned
to holy hip hop-a movement merging Christianity and hip hop
culture-to "save" themselves and the city. Converting street
corners to airborne churches and gangsta rap beats into anthems of
praise, holy hip hoppers used gospel rap to navigate complicated
social and spiritual realities and to transform the Southland's
fractured terrains into musical Zions. Armed with beats, rhymes,
and bibles, they journeyed through black Lutheran congregations,
prison ministries, African churches, reggae dancehalls, hip hop
clubs, Nation of Islam meetings, and Black Lives Matter marches.
Zanfagna's fascinating ethnography provides a contemporary and
unique view of black LA, offering a much-needed perspective on how
music and religion intertwine in people's everyday experiences.
Award-winning author Osbeck tells the dramatic stories behind 25
gospel songs, including "The Old Rugged Cross, His Eye Is on the
Sparrow, " and "Precious Lord, Take My Hand." 112 pp.
Un analisis del muy conoci-do lider de adoracion respecto al
ministerio de la musica.
How can a traditional music with little apparent historical
connection to Berlin become a way of hearing and making sense of
the bustling German capital in the twenty-first century? In
Sounding Jewish in Berlin, author Phil Alexander explores the
dialogue between the city's contemporary klezmer scene and the
street-level creativity that has become a hallmark of Berlin's
decidedly modern urbanity and cosmopolitanism. By tracing how
klezmer music engages with the spaces and symbolic meanings of the
city, Alexander sheds light on how this Eastern European Jewish
folk music has become not just a product but also a producer of
Berlin. This engaging study of Berlin's dynamic Yiddish music scene
brings together ethnomusicology, cultural studies, and urban
geography to evoke the sounds, atmospheres, and performance spaces
through which klezmer musicians have built a lively set of musical
networks in the city. Transcending a restrictive framework that
considers this music solely in the context of troubled
German-Jewish history and notions of guilt and absence, Alexander
shows how Berlin's current klezmer community-a diverse group of
Jewish and non-Jewish performers-imaginatively blend the genre's
traditional musical language with characteristically local tones to
forge an adaptable and distinctively twenty-first-century version
of klezmer. Ultimately, the music's vital presence in Berlin is
powerful evidence that if traditional music is to remain audible
amid the noise of the urban, it must become a meaningful part of
that noise.
SPANISH EDITION.This is one of the most popular hymnals, used by
million of believers because it contains traditional hymns as well
as praise and worship songs.
The endless wars of the seventeenth century took their toll in the
lives of millions of soldiers and crushing taxes. To legitimise
war, Europe s rulers turned to the Church: O God, we praise you ,
Te Deum Laudamus, was sung in the churches of France and Sweden to
celebrate victory in battle. It was a way of thanking God, but also
an opportunity for congregations to learn what had happened -- and
an occasion for festivities. In this book, the historian Anna Maria
Forssberg applies a narrative and ritual perspective to the Te
Deum, looking at specific wars such as the Thirty Years War and at
themes such as peace and enmity. This is a unique, comparative
study of war propaganda in early modern times, and how it defined
the roles of ruler and ruled alike. There were national
differences, but ultimately all war stories were highly selective.
Bloody defeat and uneventful everyday life were glossed over; what
mattered were spectacular victories and royal glory. Yet in the
end, the war stories peddled in both Sweden and France were
profoundly challenged by the crisis of 1709.
In Book 1 of "The Singing Thing", John Bell explored the reasons
why people sing. In Book 2 he is concerned with learning and
teaching. How do people pick up new music? How do you encourage a
congregation to learn a new song? How can you breathe new life into
quality hymnody which has gone stale? With both tact and
irreverence, John Bell shares insights culled from over 20 years of
experience in this field.
The "All-in-One Course for Children" takes all of the pages from
"Alfred's Basic Piano Library," Lesson Books 1A and 1B, plus
selected pages from Theory, Recital and Fun Solo Books and combines
them into part of a sequential five-book series. At the completion
of Book 5, the student will be ready to continue into Level 3 of
"Alfred's Basic Piano Library" or "Alfred's Premier Piano Course."
This course is most effective when used under the direction of a
piano teacher or experienced musician.
This wonderful collection brings together seven well-loved carols,
all newly arranged by Mack Wilberg for low voice and piano.
Featuring a range of Christmas texts, including 'Bring a torch,
Jeannette, Isabella', 'Deck the hall', and 'The Twelve Days of
Christmas', it also offers two carols with alternative, original
foreign-language options (French and Catalan). With a delightful
variety of musical styles and moods, this volume is perfect for
recitals, services, and concerts at Christmas time. Also available
in a volume for high voice.
Popular music in the twenty-first century is increasingly divided
into niche markets. How do fans, musicians, and music industry
executives define their markets' boundaries? What happens when
musicians cross those boundaries? What can Christian music teach us
about commercial popular music? In God Rock, Inc., Andrew Mall
considers the aesthetic, commercial, ethical, and social boundaries
of Christian popular music, from the late 1960s, when it emerged,
through the 2010s. Drawing on ethnographic research, historical
archives, interviews with music industry executives, and critical
analyses of recordings, concerts, and music festival performances,
Mall explores the tensions that have shaped this evolving market
and frames broader questions about commerce, ethics, resistance,
and crossover in music that defines itself as outside the
mainstream.
Embraces an all-encompassing interdisciplinary methodology to
uncover the symbiosis of saintly and civic ideals in music,
rituals, and hagiographic writing celebrating the origins and
identity of a major clerical center. Medieval Liege was the seat of
a vast diocese in northwestern Europe and a city of an exceptional
number of churches, clergymen, and church musicians. Recognized as
a priestly paradise, the city accommodated as many Masses each day
as Rome. In this volume, musicologist Catherine Saucier examines
the music of religious worship in Liege and reveals within the
liturgy and ritual a civic function by which local clerics promoted
the holy status of their city. Analyzing hagiographic and
historical writings, religious art, and sung ceremonies relevant to
the city's genesis, destruction, and eventual rebirth, Saucier
uncovers richly varied ways in which liegeois clergymen fused music
with text, image, and ritual to celebrate the city's sacred
episcopal origins and saintly persona. A Paradise of Priests forges
new interdisciplinary connections between musicology, the
liturgical arts, the cult of saints, church history, and urban
studies, and is an essential resource for scholars and students
interested in the history of the Low Countries, hagiography and its
reception, and ecclesiastical institutions. CatherineSaucier is
assistant professor of music history at Arizona State University.
Margot E. Fassler's richly documented history-winner of the Otto
Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the
John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of
America-demonstrates how the Augustinians of St. Victor, Paris,
used an art of memory to build sonic models of the church. This
musical art developed over time, inspired by the religious ideals
of Hugh and Richard of St. Victor and their understandings of image
and the spiritual journey. Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and
Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris demonstrates the
centrality of sequences to western medieval Christian liturgical
and artistic experience, and to our understanding of change and
continuity in medieval culture. Fassler examines the figure of Adam
of St. Victor and the possible layers within the repertories
created at various churches in Paris, probes the ways the Victorine
sequences worked musically and exegetically, and situates this
repertory within the intellectual and spiritual ideals of the
Augustinian canons regular, especially those of the Abbey of St.
Victor. Originally published in hardover in 1993, this paperback
edition includes a new introduction by Fassler, in which she
reviews the state of scholarship on late sequences since the
original publication of Gothic Song. Her notes to the introduction
provide the bibliography necessary for situating the Victorine
sequences, and the late sequences in general, in contemporary
thought.
Originally published in 1948 and updated with a new introduction in
1970 this book is a classic study on the musical life of a Bantu
people in Mozambique. It discusses the poetry on which the music
and dances are based and provides, both in original and
translation, 50 Chopi songs which are related to the social setting
of Chopi life. It analyses some of the musical compositions and
their structure with illustrations and transcriptions in score and
describes the method of manufacture of the instruments. One chapter
is devoted to full descriptions of the elaborate orchestral dances.
The book is illustrated by numerous photographs and maps, and
contains a glossary of musical terms, and extracts from early
Portuguese accounts of the Chopi people and their music.
A great collection of 20 hymns arranged at an easy level,
including: Abide with Me * Amazing Grace * Blessed Assurance * For
the Beauty of the Earth * Holy, Holy, Holy * A Mighty Fortress Is
Our God * Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us * To God Be the Glory *
What a Friend We Have in Jesus * and more.
The Methodist Church, with its distinctive musical inheritance by
which the worldwide Church has been enriched, famously expresses
its theology through its singing. Its authorised hymnbook therefore
means more than a hymn book does in other traditions - it expresses
the central beliefs of the Church itself and is commended to
congregations as their core worship resource. Seven years in
development, Singing the Faith is authorised by the Methodist
Conference and replaces Hymns and Psalms, published almost 30 years
ago. Containing the classic, best loved hymns of the Christian
tradition it also incorporates many bold and exciting elements
including hymns, songs and liturgical chants from the world church.
A large proportion of its 830+ items are 20th and 21st century
compositions, offering congregations a feast of musical choices
spanning centuries and continents. It is arranged thematically in
three parts: God's Eternal Goodness - the Trinity, praise and
adoration, creation, gathering for worship, Scripture and
revelation God's Redeeming Work - the life of Christ revealed
throughout the Christian year God's Enduring Purposes - the Holy
Spirit, our life in God, prayer, the sacraments, our human
journeys, the saints and the life to come. Many helpful indexes
enable fitting choices to be made that will enrich all occasions of
worship.
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